Russian engineers arrested for trying to mine Bitcoin at a secret nuclear weapons facility
Russian engineers arrested for trying to mine Bitcoin at a secret nuclear weapons facility
Posted on February 11, 2018 by True Pundit Staff
Up until today, I had no idea what the Federal Nuclear Centre in Sarov was, or that it happens to be the secret factory in Russia that made the first nuclear bomb of the USSR. But I know that now because some of the engineers working there were arrested after they tried to use the facility’s supercomputer to mine Bitcoin.
These geniuses — and they must be brilliant people to work at this particular Russian nuclear facility, which employs some 20,000 people — thought they could connect a supercomputer capable of performing 1,000 trillion calculations per second to the internet to mine Bitcoin. That’s what led to their capture. Apparently, the computer can’t be connected to the internet, which is a measure intended to prevent attacks from the outside.
“There has been an unsanctioned attempt to use computer facilities for private purposes including so-called mining,” the centre’s press service said, according to BBC. – READ MORE
Russian engineers arrested for trying to mine Bitcoin at a secret nuclear weapons facility
Russian engineers arrested for trying to mine Bitcoin at a secret nuclear weapons facility
Up until today, I had no idea what the Federal Nuclear Centre in Sarov was, or that it happens to be the secret factory in Russia that made the first nuclear bomb of the USSR. But I know that now b…
